Armstrong ThomasKING COTTONToronto Collins 1948 First Canadian Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8 Vo,.22 cm. cloth, 928 pages, ex priv. library w/bookplate inside front cover, edge chips to d.j. with some small losses, spine of d.j. toned,d.j is NOT price-clipped, in protective mylar jacket, ...a young Lancashire man invents a new way of processing cotton..on the verge of prospering from his discovery the young man is forced to choose sides in the US Civil War..does he support his cotton suppliers the South or the North...champions of freedom...The Federal Government imposed a blockade on the Confederacy, starving the Lancashire mills of cotton. a grand read!!
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35.00 USD

Brutus, DennisCHINA POEMSAustin, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975 First Edition Paperbound Very Good Oblong 8 Vo., illustrated paper wraps, 36 pages, one b & w illustration, ink sig on t.p.,a small crease at lower corner of front cover. Brutus was a anti-Apartheid leader and teacher who was at one time sentenced to eighten months hard labor on Robben Island where Nelson Mandella was also held. After his term he left South Africa , and for a time lived in London. He later moved to the US and taught at Northwestern and the Univ. of Texas at Austin. The poems were translated by Ko Ching-Po.
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100.00 USD

Eze, Ezenta E.,THE CASSAVA GHOST, A Play in Three Acts,Benin City, Nigeria Ethiope Publishing Corporation 1974 First Edition Paperbound Very Good 12mo. vi, 147, ink sig on t.p., Ezenta Eze's play is based on the historical fact of the Aba women's riot in 1929.
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50.00 USD

Munonye, JohnOIL MAN OF OBANGE; African Writers SeriesLondon Heinemann 1971 0 435 90094 3 / 9780435900946 First Edition Paperbound Very Good 8 Vo., pict paper wraps, 238 pages, ink sig on title page, Vol 94 in the African Writers Series. Munonye, a Nigerian, had three other novels published in the African Writers Series: The Only Son , Obi and A Wreath For The Maidens.
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25.00 USD

Plomley, N.J.B.THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; A Short Account of Them and Some Aspects of Their Life;Launceston,Tasmania Self Published 1977 First Edition Paperbound Fine 8 Vo., printed paper wraps, stapled at spine, pp., viii,72; illustrated with line drawings, 3 pp bibliography. The Tasmanian aborigines are an extinct people. They had no written language, so that our information about them is not only limited but comes either from the records of those others who were their contemporaries, or through the artefacts and material remains of the aborigines.
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20.00 USD

Syl Cheney-CokerThe last harmattan of Alusine DunbarOxford Heinemann 1990 0435905724 / 9780435905729 First Edition Paperbound Very Good 8 Vo,.(20 Cm) pict. trade paper, pp.,xvii, 398 , small ink sig of former owner on t.p. else a clean, tight, bright copy, In a chimerical world of illusion and truth, fired by a language that challenges the imagination, this book tells the story of a Sierra Leone-like country, from the time of the freed black American slaves who returned to Africa
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37.50 USD